PC Emulation is pretty much a waste of time...you'd be much better served by spending a bit more money on a crappy Dell box and running everything you need off of that, instead of killing yourself over a crashing, slow as hell emulator.

PC Emulation is pretty much a waste of time...you'd be much better served by spending a bit more money on a crappy Dell box and running everything you need off of that, instead of killing yourself over a crashing, slow as hell emulator.

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This is correct if performance is your only concern. However, that are people for whom the cheap PC is not an option. For them, Virtual PC is the best option.

Well, isn't virtual PC the same price almost as a PC that you could buy and probably have better performance?

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Yeah, but there are situations that VPC is better than the PC. For example, we use a windows-only billing program at work. If I need to use it, it is a heck of a lot easier to startup VPC than to run to the PC and start that up. Plus, if I bought a PC, then I'd have an ugly beige box to have to stick somewhere.

If I was wanting to run games or other intensive programs, then I'd buy the PC. But since I don't care all that much about the performance, VPC works just fine, thank you.

Whoa wait... don't the G5's come with Quicken? My iBook did (see siggy #1). So things should be cross-compatible right?

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Quicken Windows files are not combatible with the Mac version of Quicken. Intuit acknowledges this....some place on their website, after I purchased the software at the Apple store. I had to find out later, once I paid my money.

Quickbooks NUE is installed and it does not let you import information without having to pay an upgrade price to the full version. Quickbooks is over kill anyay for my uses.

Since I left the initial post for Guest PC I have reinstalled Windows XP and got it to work. I installed Quicken 2005 and created the reports that I needed.

I also installed Linux on Guest PC and it worked. The only issue so far is that I could not print anything from Linux. It created an endless loop of print jobs with my Epson R200 printer.

Since I left the initial post for Guest PC I have reinstalled Windows XP and got it to work. I installed Quicken 2005 and created the reports that I needed.

I also installed Linux on Guest PC and it worked. The only issue so far is that I could not print anything from Linux. It created an endless loop of print jobs with my Epson R200 printer.

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Glad to hear that you got it to work. I have Virtual PC, and it suits my needs just perfectly. It's not fast by any means, but it's not so slow as to be unusable on my PowerBook. My brother uses it on the G5 occasionally for Paint Shop Pro, and he comments on how fast it is. VPC is just not as bad as many people on these forums make it out to be. I don't have any personal experience with Guest PC, but I've heard from people who've tried it that it works fine.

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